Academic Exile, Two Years On
Academia has become an intellectual prison, and many incarcerated professors are compelled to live a dual existence.
Bo Winegard
· 13 min read
Academic Freedom
A collection of 55 posts
Why This Feminist Is Taking the University of Bristol to Court
Next week, I am taking my university to court. To my knowledge, it is the first time an academic institution has been forced, at trial, to justify why it prioritises trans rights over women’s rights. The other party in the case is the University of Bristol, which one might
Raquel Rosario Sánchez
· 15 min read
An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular
Astronomy seems to be in trouble, as it is increasingly populated by researchers who seem more concerned with terrestrial politics than celestial objects, and who at times view the search for truths about nature as threatening. This became obvious in recent years, once the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
Tales From the Gulag
The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 11 min read
Podcast #165: Peter Boghossian on Why He Quit Portland State University
“Grievance Studies” hoaxster and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he could no longer continue waging his struggle for intellectual pluralism without first shaking off the ideological constraints of campus life.
Quillette, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian
· 1 min read
Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
Constantin Polychronakos
· 9 min read
The Denial of Cancel Culture
The share of academics who lean left is between 71 and 83 percent across the first six columns, with just 4–16 percent conservative.
Eric Kaufmann
· 14 min read
It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowardice of Those Who Let It Happen
Dozens of scholars threatened to resign from the college if my appointment were allowed to stand.
Margaret Wente
· 11 min read
Demoted and Placed on Probation
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
Stuart Reges
· 14 min read
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?
Theodore P. Hill
· 14 min read
As Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, I Question Brown's Failure to Defend Lisa Littman
Pursuing unorthodox scholarship can lead to frustration and failure, to exciting breakthroughs, or anything in between.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 8 min read
How Activists Took Control of a University — The Case Study of Evergreen State
Understanding these mechanisms can hopefully produce a broader sense of how ideologically motivated people are able to acquire and wield so much power.
Uri Harris
· 8 min read
When Words Lose Their Meaning — Wilfrid Laurier University
Though different literary forms, the key message of both works was the same: beware any person or group that redefines words.
David Millard Haskell
· 12 min read
Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning
Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions.
Patrick Burns
· 6 min read
Wilfrid Laurier and the Creep of Critical Theory
To understand what happened at Wilfrid Laurier we need to understand what’s causing the gradual advance of leftwing ideology as a cultural phenomenon.
Uri Harris
· 12 min read